When we consider the fact that nearly three-quarters of the surface of the globe is covered by oceanic water.
C. V. RAMANThe essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment.
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It was my great good fortune, while I was still a student at college, to have possessed a copy of an English translation of his great work.
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And it was this belief which led to the subject becoming the main theme of our activities at Calcutta from that time onwards.
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The Sensations of Tone.’ As is well known, this was one of Helmholtz’s masterpieces.
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We must teach science in the mother tongue. Otherwise, science will become a highbrow activity.
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We begin to realise that the molecular scattering of light in liquids may possess an astronomical significance, in fact contribute in an important degree to the observed albedo of the earth.
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It is generally believed that it is the students who derive benefit by working under the guidance of a professor.
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I would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage.
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We have, I think, developed an inferiority complex.
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It seemed, indeed, that the study of light-scattering might carry one into the deepest problems of physics and chemistry.
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Towards the end of February 1928, I took the decision of using brilliant monochromatic illumination obtained by the aid of the commercially available mercury arcs sealed in quartz tubes.
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A voyage to Europe in the summer of 1921 gave me the first opportunity of observing the wonderful blue opalescence of the Mediterranean Sea.
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It will soon be 25 years from the date of publication of my first research work. That the scientific aspirations kindled by that early work did not suffer extinction has been due entirely to the opportunities provided for me by the great city of Calcutta.
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It seemed not unlikely that the phenomenon owed its origin to the scattering of sunlight by the molecules of the water.
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The fundamental importance of the subject of molecular diffraction came first to be recognized through the theoretical work of the late Lord Rayleigh on the blue light of the sky, which he showed to be the result of the scattering of sunlight by the gases of the atmosphere.
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From Calcutta has gone forth a living stream of knowledge in many branches of study. It is inspiring to think of the long succession of scholars, both Indian and European, who have lived in this city, made it their own, and given it of their best.
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